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A(;T -v P1&tR
-E~* Af ACT o1avinx ro. TBa APPoINswe BY
-O ELECTos OF PRKSIDENT and
VICE-PaESDENT OF TE UNITYD STIATES.
T.-I B. it enecte: by ahe Sente andHonseof Rep
- reetatives, uort met and .ving in Gemral As
*mkly, and by Oe authority cf the saW Tha
* ereater the election of Eletors for the offices
of President and Vice-President of the' tnited
- - Etate shall be ntde in this State t-y the pedple
f the State ;and all persons who are qalified
the Cewniviion fand Laws of the State to vote
i Se merq of :he GeneraI Assenbly sball be
tnM V vote ftr Pectors of Pr sident and
- r ent of the United States.
I That at least one month before the day
- ed by the laws of the United Staes for the
L such elecions, the Governor of the
-l shall issue his proclamation directing the
Janagers of Elections throughout the State to
~6k 0lla.at. ieir respective precincts for the
1ethika of the number of Electors to which the
-- ate shall.at the time be entitled.
. L That the Managers of Elections, through
-teState, shali give public notice of such
election at least fifteen days previous to the day
*aginedor the holding of the same, and on
vath daT shall open polls at their respective pre
- *inta,.naezwing and closing the polls at the
-ame bours, and conductng the election in the
emidanner, as directed by law for the election
fMeubers of the General Assembly. On elo
ing~the polta, the Managers at each preinct
-adt immediately proceed to count the 'tes
ad shall make out and sign a certificate
bewing the number of votes polled and the
s ber polled for each person voted for as an
-- E1lecto;r which certificate, together with a list of
- -h voters, shall be carried by one of the Man
pf each precinct and reported to the gene
saeing of the Managers-of the District, which
h tp beld, on the day following, at the Court
'-s6f the District, between the ho-urs of
- ee 3N. and four P. M. And the Managers so
*eembled in general meeting shal, after examin
na . tEeeeral returns, prepare a tabular state
-" nent'-showing the number of votes polled at
--anchprecinct, and the number polled for each
eAsoft voted tor is Pectors; which statement
- idffbeeertified ander the hands of said Man
4ema; and, after being casefully sealed in an en
_*9 a*pe properly endorsed, shall be forwarded
.t* *e Seeretary of State by a messenger for that
vto-be chosen by the Managers, who
be sworn to deliver, and shal deliver the
.pi with the'seals unbroken, to the Seeretary
_.WState, at his ofice in Columbia, within the
-i ',e49 days neit ensuing the day of said election:
--Thatin the Election District of Berke
- sd Beaufort MAnagers shall meet at the
IoUftt twt-lve o'clock M., the second
IVi ertle electimonad count the votes, and
-d- eonf to-the requirements
, That on the Tuesday ensuivg the day of
-'the Seresary of'State shall deliver
- ji packages covering said certiScates to the
_4*weaqro , and shal,o n. is presence, open the
-g and proceed to make a general aggregate
-17 4kf votes polied thrcughout the State AnC
pLaabe thegity of the Governor, i1mediately
Soa'israscertaining the result of such election, to
-sa lhis proclamation, declarirg the -persons
- ered6ted.as Electors, and calling the-m to assemble
is-Voirmbia, en the first W ednesday in Decem
- e?en esuing, (or .nn such other day as utay
'erEeby -the laws of the United States) for thef
- -e t votinz for the c es of Pre'sident and
~resideat of she United States. Should it
- , ot-n-aing an aggregate of the returns
- -ihe several Districts, that a greater number
--erittons than +-he nutmber to be elected have
.- amied the -greatest and an equal number of
-2Wt,the eleotion as between the persons
at. hating ah -equal number 'of -votes shall
- a .-deserwined by lot, to be drawn ~by the~
eeMar of State,. in the . presence of, and
d~lirecin of the Governor, and the person or
eunso-choacaby lot shall be by -the Gover
E ~ ppeainie~d as duty elected.
' - - 5*$ at no miember.of the Congress of the~
'VnfeiiStatea, or anv person holding an office
- '' ~ po&er-trust civil or military, under the Go v
vfmmeRt-of the United States, shall be eligible
ktfie o@ice of an-jEletor; nor shall' any one-be
. -sc-eligible who is not a~citizeir iirei1ent of
Aetag,'audhimself a qualified voter in such
- tion, according to the Constitutinon-and Laws
e - ee stage,
- ISL.That on the first Wednesday in December
nest ensuing the election, the Electors shall be
- -neen$ at.Columbia, and shall eacht,- by or be
d lie-teour.of ten O'oIck & M..of that day,
rda the'Governor that he is -present for the
jpasetf rforming, his. duties as an Elector.
sthehedutty of the Governor to ap-~
hour' r sard day, not.later than twelve
- .~, . o kMi&dadplaee for thterneeting of- the
? --- Eigit( audio give information thereof tQ each
- estei'wlisaft have fregorted'himself present.
-- %sar endl place so appointed; It shall . be
- ja ofg ethe Electors ~to assem~ble, and when
- enMed vomte for Presidenriand Vice-Presi
- of he-mted~ States, a-nd to make returns
bl to the laws of the United
- a sauch -cas.~ made - and provided.
-4 s~of ,the .failure of any, Elector to
- by . reason: of death- or other
- - ~ -or a--case it should appear that asvy Elector
- - -s'digquaflied to act, (of which fact the
- ectors pr.esent shall jurdge4:he Electors
segt syaltproceedl telect; by ballot in 'his
- i ome' oither qualified person, whose atten
- 4000.y be at once proeured, and the person
- - 4,6 eWshithl meet'-with tlre other Electors and4
- -Amsgual the duteies required of him as an
- # That tbe Managers of Electiocs shall, forI
doy r imapropet conduct ithe hold
* ~ceetions for Electors, be liable to
- pnhisand ferfeitures as are or may
~dedly law. for regulating the generail
- a the- State. And the Secretary of
* ~r negiect of the duties -beremi requiredi
-l es9bject to a fine of 'not exceed-I
- thonsEd doa, to be recovered by in
- it 'nd the messenger appointed by the
-aipge.s in~ any D)istrict to carry the return of
asDIearcfr-to the Secretary of State, sha.ll, for
sn- 6e f-ad duty;~be subject to a fine of not
)4bIin-wo buedred doHlars nor more thant fve
~~- - knliidiotars, to be' recovered ia like manner.
Vi3jghatbe.person- attending -as Electors,
siet sesehgers who 'shia carry the District
- resumLe tSecrtary of State, san be enti
tiet; recetye the same per diem and mileage
- - aJgwe4.to the members of the General Assembly
fqrti* rumpier of days and the distance neces
ptdy)ccapied in going to and returning from
' -4 Qiia4 and it shall be the duty of the Secre
taf-othe State to ascertain the amount due to
.aed, and ta certify .pay-bills therefor, which
al'9paid out of our money in the Public
Tree sory not other wise appropriated.
I'Tbat all laws having r-eference to the elec
tionof Electors of President and Vice-President
et the United States, contrary to the provisions
of this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
In the Senate House, the twenty-first day at
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
-W. D. PORTER,
President of the Senate.
C. IH. SIMONTON.
Speaker of the Hlotse of Representatives.
Approved : JAMts L. Osa.
AN ACT TO AMEND TnE Law Ksows As TUE
"STAY LA W."
I. Be it enacted by the Senate dnd HIouse of
Reprsentatives, noze met and .sitting in Gen
r-alAssemnbly, and by the authrity of the same,
That the Act of the Genieral Assembly enti
tled 'CAn Act to Extend Relief to Debtors,
and to Prevent the Sacrifice of Property at
Public Sales," passed the twenty-tirst day of
D'ecethber, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-one, and all
Acts amending said Act, be,' and the same
are, hereby cor:tinued in force, until the ad
journment of the next regular session of this
General Assembly, and that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to apply to any
cause of action arising cx delicto. nor to any
menths previousy, t-pay, on or before the
first day of December next, one-tenth of the
aggregate amount of debt and interest due at
the time such demand is made ; but- in such
case, the creditor shall be a liberty to pro
ceed tojudgement, as if this Act hadnot been
passed and to enter execution, provided that
no execution so obtained shall, during the
continuance of this Act, be enforced for more
than the costs and one-tenth of the aggregate
amount of the debt ard interest.
'I. Neither shall any debtor on final pro
cess now subsisting, be entitled to the benefit
of this Act who shall fail if demanded, at
least three months previously, by the credi
tor, or his or her attorney, to pay, on or be
fore the first day of December next, the costs
and one-tenth part of the aggregate amount
of principal and interest due on such process,
at the time of such demand. And when such
debtor on demand made as aforesaid,
shall fail to pay as aforesaid, it shall and may
be lawful for such crtditor to enforce such
process for the costs and one-tenth part of the
aggregate amount ofprincipal and interest due.
IT. During the continuance of this Act,
the Statutes of Limitations be and are sus
tended against the claims of all persons in
possession of property of debtors on- final pro
cess, and on which such process may have a
lien.
In the Senate House, the twenty-first day
of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred rnd sixty
five.
W. D. PORTER,
President of the Senate,
C. H. SIMONTON,
Speaker of House of Rep.
Approved : JAMS L Oa.
AN ACT To AuEND THE LICENsE L .ws.
I. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of
Represenfatives, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That
the City Council of Charleston, the various Mu
nicipal Corporations and Boards of Commission
ers of Roads, and aU other persons or bodies cor
porate, in whom the right to grant tavern licenses.
or licenses to retail spirituous liquors is now vest
ed, be and the same are hereby authorized to fix
the pr;ce of such licenses at such sums as to them
may seem proper: Provided, That thq !ame shall
not be less than fifty doliars for each license.
II. That any person who shall violate the Li
cense Law of this State, upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined in a sum not less than tre:>le the
amount of the price of a license prescribed, and,
at the time of the commission of the offence, ex
isting for the local jurisdiction wherein such of
fence is committed, and shall be imprisoned at
th:a discretion of the Court.
In the Senate House, the- twenty-first day of
Deeember, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-five.
W. -D. PORTER,
President of the Senate.
C. H* SIMONTON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved: JAMEs L. Onat.
*Interesting Letter from Gen. Pillow.
It. gives us great pleasure to publish the sub
joined letter from General Pillow. Most heart
ily do we.congratulate him upon his success, and
trust that the resulit of his enterprise may be fully
up to his anticipations. Hie has gone to work
like -aman of sterling good sense, and his exam
ple ought to be .followed in alt parts of the. South.
If all her planters would do-as he has done our
glorious section would soon again blossom as the
rose, and- attain a highe*degree of prosperity
tan characterized her i'n the past
Nassivi.E, TENN., Dec. 22, 1865.
Major-general-0. 0. Howard, Commissioner, &c.,
Washington:
It affords me pleasure to inform you that I
have been successful beyond my most sanguine
epectations in engaging labor for all my planta
tions in Arkansas and Tennessee. I bave already
enda ged about four hundred freed_ne at.d have
fiifcndn Tiga successaot tne. wo-t
I have given, iia all cases, the freedmen a $&rt of
the crop of cotton, and I allow him land for the
cultivation of vegetables and corn for his own
ue. without charge ; therefore I would have en
gaged one thousand laborers if I had needed
that number My brother who adopted my plan
f work, succeeded in engaging laborers for three
places .he is working. I have put one large plan
tation under white -aborers fromn the North upon
precisely the same terms I engaged freedmen.
I feel anTious to try the system of white labor
of thet character, for the plantation. Knowing
the interest you feel in tbe success of the system
o~ the reedinWn,- I feel it to be a duty to comt
muicate the result of my work thus far. With
a&surace of mypersonal regard and respect,
*I am, General, very respectfully,
(Signed) - GIDEON J. PILLOW.
BcREAUR.F.A.L&. c ,
NASHvILLE, Dec. 25, 1865.
Respetfully forwarded to Major-General 0. 0O.
Howar-d, Comn
I have abuada;t testimoay of similar charac
ter from-intelligent wealthy planters, who' accept
the "logic of events," and are co-operating with.
me in'adjn ting the necw relations, on the basis
f "impartial-justice." - I regret that there are
manv in. the South who do not - accept the con
cl-ons of the strife, and who yet fail to recog
nize the fact that thA. country is in earnest in ask:
rg guarantees of freedmen,. But the cause may
e set down as "marching'on.'
CLINTON B. FISK,
BtMaj. Gen., Ass'r. Comn.
THE PRIViLEGE oP FaREDo.-Three negroes
stole a hog from the plantation-of Dr. M., a bout
fifteen.miles from Madiso, F'la. They were -ap
preended,.duly tried; convicted, and senteunced
to six Month's imprisonment. -On hearing the
sentence they all Ioobd .omewhat blank ; but,
after a short conf'erence amongst' themselves,
one of them, who aeted as- spokesman, said to
the office-, "Massa judge, sposen we take de ole
fas'n whippin and be let go. -How dat do ?"
The good-natured official, smiling, replied that
e had no .authority to order a whipping, nor
had he any one to lay it on if be did commute
the punish~ment. "But, mnassa judge," said the
aspirant for stripes, "sposen we gets somebody
to do de whippen, how den ?" "Very well," re
plied his hoitor, "If you prefer the whipping,
and employ sdme one to lay it on well, I have no
objection, and will let you off from the punish
ment." A colored friend, at their request, after
some search, engaged a neighboring overseer to
do the whipping. When the men were tied pre
pratory to their receiving the .prefered puuish
met and the operator was about to begia, he
said, "Look here, boys, I ca-.t waste my time
and strength for nothing ; I aint agoin to whip
you unless I'm paid for it." "Well, nmassa," said
the spokesman, "How much you ax ?
Three dollars and a half a head," he replied,
"and not a cent less." Cash was rather scarce
with the culprits. Butt with tbe scrapings of
their pockets, supplemented with what their co
lored friends lent them, the requisite sum of ten
dollars and fifty cents was made up, and the
whipping was fully and faithfully administered
they got the fu;l1 worth of their money. Never
theless, like man everywhere, discontent with
his enjoyments even under his own chosen con
ditions, their eloquent spokesman again thus de
livered himself, "Massafjudge, dis amn a hard case,
time u'se to been when we coumld get a I,roper
whipen for nuflin, but dey is free u.s and now we
can't get a whippen wid out payin for em. Mas
sa Judge, I wish dey wieald make us as we usen
be " F.
- t Lautrensville Herald.
SUooTING AFFAIR.-RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 5.
-A shooting affair occurred in the Hall of the
Capital to-day between Pollard, of' the Ex
aminer, and Tyler and Coleman, of the Eni
The Reptblic of ChM.,
Chili, or Chile, as it is indifferently written,
the most populous and important of theSouth
American Republics, is a strip of land be
tween the Andes and the Pacific; in length of
coast line about two thousand two hundred
and seventy miles, and in breadth averaging
from two hundred miles to twenty. The har
bcrs along her extensive coast are neither nu
merous nor good. The best of them is Tal
cabuano, in Talcahuano. Valparaiso, though
the busiest port of the country, lies open to
winds from the northward, and accidents to
the shipping in the harbor are frequent. Be
sides Chili proper, the Chilean Government
exercises jurisdiction over a large number of
outlying islands. The population, according
to a census, taken, probably, with the loose
ness of Depew, in 1857, was 1,658,458.
The population is very heterogeneous. It
is estimateid that only between one-fourth and
one-third of the Chillians are of pure .spanish
blood, the remainder being made up tf do
mestic2ted Indians, and the fruit of their in
tercourse with the dominant race.
The industry of the country takes mostly an
agricultural, at least a bucolic turn. The labor
is done by subjugated Indians, who are re
duced to a sort of peonage ; and the territory
is chiefly in the hands of great proprietors.
Tne farms of ten comprise thousands of acres,
and the elevated plains afford pasturage for
iramense herds of cattle, which are bred and
slanghtered for the horns and hides. The
tillage is very rude, and but for the singular
fertility of the soil, would be almost without
profit. But the washings from the mountains
which are spread by the freshets ver the
lowlands, and further diffused by stem of
irrigation which, like that of ttl@yptians,
is more vdvanced than the other processes of
the country, makes the soil sq rich that the
surface scratching which is.givep to it is re
warded by a yield of from thirty to sixty fold.
The mineral wealth of Chile is very great.
Gold is found in the Cordilleras, near the
coast, and is mined for after a fashion ; but
the region which contains it is so inaccessible,
and so exposed to the incursions of predatory
Indians, of whom band'; infest the whole in
terior country, that the amount obtained
yearly is reckoned at less than half a million
of dollars. Silver is worked more successJul
Iv.
I In 1858, the last year of which we have
exact inforntion of their condition, there
were exportedof the product of the mines
over four millions of dollars. But copper is
the most important of the minerals of Chile,
the export in 1858 amounting to $40,700,000,
considerably more than half the value of the
entire exprorts of the year.
The commerce of the country, hgainst
which the existing blockade is directed, is
not, it would seem, of such extent that its
destruction would serionsly cripple Chile. In
1858 ihe merchant-fleet numbered 269 yes
sels of all sorts.
The Government of Chile is, in name, a r'e
public ; but, as always happens when freedom
is.thrust upon a race not fit to relieve it, it is
a dictatorship. But the forms of freedom are
sedulously p reserved-a cabinet of four muin
isters-of home and foreign affairs, of finance,
of war and marine, and of religion and educa
tion is ordainedl, to assist the President-in his
exalted functions, and their jntogrity is asstired
by a constitutional prvision tbot th-ey shall
not depart the realm within six montle after
the expiration of their official term.
COITON AND SUGAR 'IN MEXICo.-MAXIuLTAN
is making great effor ts to secure a sugar-grow
ing and cotton cultivating population mn
Mexico. The New Orleans Bee.h as the fol
lowing interesting facts: - -
On all sides agricultural colonies have
ixnaiendas(a haciendla is an 'estate often
containing thirty or forty thousad-acrB, i.n
the immediate neighbbr hood of Cordova, bave
been subdivided and allotted among the re
cent emigrants from Europe. Two vast-plan
tations of cotton have been established by
Mr. Wood, of Alabama, upon the Rio Verdo,
and promis'e an ahundant crop. The official
journdl contains an application of M. Gi for
permission to rent the stock of Mesquital to
twenty Belgian families. It produces one
undred fold of corn.
Senator Gr.L adds:
Mr-. Terry and family, with ten other, per
sons, had arrived. They were officers of' the
Confederate army. They desire to obtain a
large extent of country suitable for the pro
duction of cotton, augar and corn. They
have been, offered various locations, and there
are many persons who take a deep interest in
securing the success of this colony. Mi. Jim
enez has imported five hundred European
laborers with their families. -He- will settle
themi upon the hacienda of Santa Rosa
A CLAss TI1AT sHoULD BE- ENOURAED. -
t affords us pleasure to record the fact that
there are many freedmen in our midst who
conduct themselves properly, aad are doing
all in their power to obtain an honest living
fr the.mselves and those who are dependant
upon them., This class should be encouraged
to pursue the course they have rmarked out.
hey .sh'uld receive at:the hands -of all an
entirely different treatment than-that showed
to the idle and vicious - negroes.- Whenever
a fr-eedjman keeps in his proper place and iis
disposed to work; anaf obey the laws, -be
should be so -treated -that he -will: continue
is good conduct. - -
We would here say to fl siXch,-gon will
find your former ow ne rs your firurest friends:
Make~ the best contracts you can and still con
ti:ue to live with them, if they desire to~ re
tain your services.- 6karleston .News.
If' any doubt should exist as to the terrible
state of demrorialization in this city of a million of
inhabitants, the annual report of .the 3fttropolitan
Police Comnmissioner-s would painfally dispel it.
In the last year the number of arrests, for vsrious
crimes, offences and misdemneanors, amount to
sixt-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy
three. There are no less than twelve hundred
"fallen angels" (known as pretty waiter girls) in
concert saloons. There are ten thgusand bar
rooms ini New York and Brooklyn,. Thero are
horrible dens here where men,.women and chil
dr?n sleep in filth and vermin, luiddled together
in damp cellars, infested by various and rapacious
rats. Anid this in a city w here there are princely
masions put up at a cost of hundreds of thou
sar.ds of dollar+-where some men spend on a
single meal what would give life and shelter arid
comfort to these miserable wretches for a year.
But the details of the picture are too revolting
to contemplate-let it be hidden from the view.
e [New York~ Letter.
"Baby" Bates, the biggest mna out of
doors, left this place for his home on Big
Shanty on Wednesday last. He is 28 years
(d, 7 fe.et high, weighs :341 pounds, and has
a foot 14 inches long. i-I was in the Con
federate service during the war, and altaough
as easy to hit as a barn door, escaped we be
lieve without a scratch.-Abingdon Virgin
an.
IMPORTANT FRtOM MEXIco-Omfcial news
from G.hihuahua up to the 92d ult. has been
received. JAUTREZ entered on a second term
Ias President without opposition. RLGEILS
has been app>ointed General-in-dhief of the
central army, in place of ORTEGA, assassinated
TIfHE WEEKLY IERALD.
NIWBERRY, S. C.
Wednesday Morning, Ja'uary I, 1866.
W Look out for the cross M mark.
g Renew your subscriptions.
g Now is the time to subscribd.
g A good time to pay arrearages.
r Good motto-pay as you go.
" Advertise lIberally-and gain largely.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs.
Macoy, Herwig & Vidal, Printers, Engravers and
Lithographers, 64 East Bay, Charleston, S. C.,
for a neat blotting pad with calendar for 1866.
These gentlemen also supply the trade with blank
books and stationery.
The S. C. and G. & C. Railroda.
The S. C. Railroad, we learn will be completed
to Columbia and the train run through - by the
end of this week. This will prove a great public
benefit, so far. And when our Greenville & Co
lumbia end is completed we Will be once more all
right as regards mails, freight and travel. The
iron fot the G. & C. road only awaits the comple
tion of the former that it may be brought through,
to be rapidly laid. Reliable says by the first of
February it will be accomplished.
District Judge.
We publish this week the law concerning Dis
trict Courts. The appointment of Adj'tPope as
District Judge gires general satisfaction. Con
cerning the novel and untried responsibilities of
this new office the Winnsboro Register says:
It is a most responsible and delicate trust; to
protect in good faith the negro in the exercise of
his new franchise ; to adjudicate the multiform
and perplexed cases that will be referred to the
Court, and to inaugurate a system of'jurisprudence
suitable to "freedmen" that will always act as a
pledge of justice to them. As a noviel and origin
al institution, without precedent or practice to
assist and guide in the administration of its func
tions, much must of necessity depend upon the
spirit, of equity of the first incumbents, their
firmness, sound judgment and strong practieaI
sense.
The following is a notice served by the treasury
department against persons supposed to have
been presidents of the blockade companies .
-CHARLESTON, S. C., January 8th, 1868.
SIR : Information having been laid before this
office that you hare, within your.custody or con
trol, cotton, money, sterling exchange, and other
property belonging to the blockade-running com
panv, of which you were president, known as
the Southern Importing and Exporting Company,
or by some similar name. I have directed As
sista~nt Special Agent, H. B. Peters, who will
hand you this order,- to examine you fuHly on
oath in rega-d to such property ; and .to take
possession, for the purpose of this investigation,
of all books, letters and papers that may be found
in your custody, or under your control, relating
thereto. You wHi also take notice that you are
hereby forbidden to dispose of the money, ster
ling excharge, cotton, or other property belong
ing to the said company, either by the payments
of the dividends to stockholders or other wise ;
and you are required to deliver the same to me,
t' he held subject to the order of the -Secretary
of the Treasury.
Respectfully, T. C. CALLICOT.
.Su pervising Special A gent.
The money made by running the blockade can
not be said to be the pr operty "used in aidinig
the insurrection under act of April &th, 1g61.
If liable as property of persons engaged in inur
rection under act July 17th, 1862, so, also, is
AIhn nr u-ty Teand personaX ini the c_oun
try ; and if.pard on protects. th one, so, also,
mutrproteet -the other.
SInfluenced by these, or similar considerations,
Mr: T. D. Jerver, one of the parties against
w hom. proceedings have be-en taken, has refused
to respond, and yesterday was sent to jail. -Chat -
lston C'ourier, 10th~ inst.
Congressional.
WASaI{INGox, January 5.-In the Senate, Mr.
Sumner offered a petition from colored people of
the State of Alaama, asking Congress to secure
their freedom to them. Also, a petition- from
colored people of Mississippi, asking the right of
sffrage.- Also, one from colored people of G3olo
rao, protesting against the recognition of that
State on account of the radical irnjustice to them
in -the recently adopted State Constitution.
Mr. Williams introduced a joint resolution,
submitting as an amendument to-the Constitution
that no.power shall exist in Congress to provide
for payment to -any person- on account of .the
emancipation of sla;vEry in ,the United States, and
no appropriation of money shall ever be made by
law of Congress for that purpose. Referred to
the'Judiciai'y Coinmittee.
The Commlittee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
propose to send a specal commission South to en
q-rire into the condition of affairs, with the view
of obtaining proper:infornmation.
-A resolution. was adopted in -the House, having
in.view the entire suppression of polygamy- in
Utah.
CoRn isn WnRIsK Ev.The two hundred dollars
tax on all stils is noiv in force. All persons car
rying on the brisifiess of distilling without license
from the Commissionems of PdbliosBmi1dinga' are
liable'to severe penaties-fine and-imprisonment.
See advertisemenit of the Co)mnmissiotiere in' our
paper. . -
'Tbe people r?this -State -onght to know at
once, ttiatsthere-is no safely or profit idf stilh'og
whiskey ; as sure as f,ate, they -will hav'e the
UnitedStates tax of.two- dellars the gallotr to
pay on what they have made, and are now mak
ing, also a State tax- of twenty dollars on every
hundred dollars worth of whiskey ; this, with the
two h'undred dollars tax on every single still now
in operation or continued after this time, will
near about ruin all distillers of whiskey ;they
should wind up instanter, or they will lose every
thing. Buy no more corn to make whiskey this
year.- Greenville Patriot and Mountaineer.
EDTRIL VALEDcTORY.-The following fare
well address of a Western editor to his readers
is not a bad hit at what is called freedom of thme
press. Each:individual freedman will give yoj
perfect liberty to contradict and contra.vert the
notions and opinions of everybody but himself:
"The undersigned retires from the editorial
chair with complete conviction that all is vanity.
From the hour he started his paper to the pres
ent time he has been solicited to lie upon - every
given subject, and can't remember ever baying
told a wholesome truth without diminishing his
subscription list, or making an enemy. Under
these circumstances of trial, and having a tho
rough contempt for himself, he retires in order
to recruit his moral constitution."
MR. EDITr t-The XII Section of an "Act to
establish certain Roads, bridgesq and Ferries"
passed at the late session of the Legislature,reads
as follows :
"That the several Boards of Comm#issionme's of
Roads for the respective Districts and Parishes in
this State, as existing or appointed at the session
of the G~eneral Assembly for December, A. D.
188, shall continue in office and have legal exa
istence as such, until the end of the nextt regular~
session of the Legislature of this State."
So that the new domniissioners as pnbflshed in
your paper can not enter upon their duties before
the adjournment of the next regulgrsession. The
old Board as it existed at its last ineeiing will
continu is omfle as pmovid . in thn at. abnve
Revenue Stamps from 2 ets. to $5, can be had
dt Carwile & M'Caughriu's. -
LANS' Woa Box.-M. Zobel pbised on our
table the other day, for inspection, a ladies' work
box, made cf rosewood and most beaUtifully in
laid- with.a variety of precious woodW, forming
varldU ingenious devices. Said box contains an
apartment for a work set, looking glass, a check
tr board, also back gammon and "fox and
geese," with drawers for checkers and chessmen.
The box will be raffled on Thuriday next, at the
Newberry Hotel, at 2 o'clock, p. m.
TR WaLTnEt.-We are indebted to the clerk
for the following report of the weather. Rain
may be expected any day from date until the
weather clears, and thereafter aLo. Mud will
necessarily be abundant. No getting around it.
The Sun may be looked for-after a while. If it
clears up cold, the weather may be fine. Have
it hand umbrellas, and over shoes that you may
be prepared for more bad weather. In conse
quence of dampness the soil is un9t for gatden
Ing, therefore, defer it awhile. If it should rain
again, let it. If it grows cold, build up large
fires, and take hot stews at nizht.
WHRZ is r?-Why next door to Maj. L. 3.
Jone' office, and opposite the ordinary's room in
the Court House, This is the answer to the in
quiry "wherc is the new book store r Messrs.
D'uffie & Chapman are snugly located over there,
with a most capital stock of school, miscellaneous
and standard books, pens,-paV#r, ink, etc., which
id beitig largely added to. The place is a little
but of the way, but then it has the advantage of
being such a quiet retreat and so snug; no one
will object to it after going there. We recoms
mend the gentlemanly proprietors to our friends
and the public. Do not forget the places
CORxR.-The enterprising firm of Webb &
Lovelace are at last cornered. Commonly this
would be an objection, as no one likes lo be cor
nered. But with W. & L., it shows a business
point, they have cornered themselves, no one else
did it for them, and have secured by it two points
of attraction. They occupy now first their old
corner stand under the Herald -office, -and alsc
the well known and attractive darner under the
Hotel. And these corner stores are filed with
the choicest and most admiratly selected stocl
of goods to be found in the place. It is.next tc
impossible to go astray, if one corner misses you
the other will certainly bring you up. Remem
ber-the corners of W. & L.
flour, Flour-at Webb & Lovelace's.
We are requested to call attention to -change
in advertisement of estate sale of H. W. Gary it
regard to terms, which will be cash in- currency
See School notice of Mr. T. Duckett. Parent
cannot do better than send their children to him
as he is fully competent to their instruction.
Dr. L M..Grimball,-located at Frog Level, of
fers his services to the citizens of Ne* berry 'Dis
trict.
ofAll persons having demands against the estati
ofDr 'T. W. Thomipson, deceased, are callet
upon to render them.-properly attested, on or be
fore the 6rst day of A pril-next.
Se'e notice of Teacher Wanted. This is a mos
admirable opportunity for a quatlified lady to se
cure an exceptionable home. Applications wil
be received at- this office.
J. F. OTecltl & Son, Wholess;le Grocers- n
Commission Merchants,- Charleston, and doalert
in Wines, Liqnors, &c. Country^ merchantt ar
invited to visit this house~
The Charleston Drhug House of 3. A Morgan
153- Meeti g Street, with Mr.. ohn Ashhurst aa
superintendent, will prove a- success. Druggists
and others would do well to pay-attention to thiu
hse The stock is fresh and comuplete. -
J.oWSteee north cast corner King'- and
George stre'ets, Charulest o-n, invite attention to
comple:e assortmenrt of Gentlemen's Furnishing
and Fanecv Goods. The trade wiltfmnd it to theit
advantage to -examine this stock -before purchas
ing elsewhere. - -- - -
The firm of Webb & Sage, long known to th
business commiuniity, having resumed business as
Whiole-sale Crbekery Dealera,.at No. 5 Hafne st..
Chtrleston, will be happy to meet their old friendt
and customers. We -rec9mmend ' thleux wA b
pleasure.
Wilriamn G Whilden & Co., formerly Hayder
& Whilden,, Charleston. The chaactre( ti
house,so -long an'd favorably, known needs.)ui
little recomnk~dadon', a simple aanouncementol
having opened,a splendid st.ock -of goods isa al
sufficient. Reference is called.to their card.'
We refer-with pleaure, and call attention *
the card of William Gurney, Whotesale Gs'ocei
and Commis$fon Merchant,. Charlesto4i MEr. ft
S. Cathcartis co'neeted with~ this house and -cor
dially invites his friends 4c:dall. Liberal adwanced
made on consignments.
Mapes' Nitrogenized Phosphate of Ldie. H. W
Kisman,Agent. This fertilse~r has a deservedlj
high reputation. Seej ard of Mr..Kjruanian, ani
supply yourselves, farmers and platry,-tha, you
may -enrich yeuP--inpoverished, soils&d ncrease
your harvesta.
Mt. Bion Institute; Wiansboso', S. C., G.. A
Woodward, Principal. The irei-elses of this
popular Iast.itte will be resumed the fhst Mon.
day in February, '66. The corps of officers are
men of sterling character and profound erudition
See card for particulars. '
Messrs. 0. H. Walter & Son, rece7ving and for.
warding agents, it will be perceived, will gstablish
themselves at Columbia, on theg,ompletion ofthe
S. C. R. R., to that point. 'hajess Wee
have justly earned a good reputa ~~be
speak for them a continued and'albe, o
patronage.e
It is with no ordinary pleasuit that we recom-~
mend our friend and fellow townsman, Mf. W.
Bythewood, as an experienced Auctioneer ami
Commision Merchant. We have known him for
years in this line and are satisfied that he ranks
A No. 1. To hear him cry makes his auditoti
laugh.
Our old friend C. H. Kingsmore is, stitet a long
lase, once more in his old place.- Good before,
we are happy to state that he is still bettei now.
His pictures show that they come from the hand&
of an artist. The a'dvantage now offered by Mr.
Kingsmore, is one that has been long desired,
and his tooms will soon be 'flled with those who
are anxioue to-secure the shadow ete the suba
stance fade.
It will be obsert'ed that Messt's. Wright & Cop.
pock have removed tcg their old stand, No. 4
Melohon Rew,s and having disposed of their stock
of Ilardware atidiry Goods, intend to devote
their time ar.d attention exclusively to keeping a
fii..e clea Clothiner and Gents' out:fitting estab
Mr. Gtough says we sopnetimes -one at
the incirility of railroad conductor*;vrhile' it
we-know al the pretty ann WucM to WhIch
-ihey are tubjected ;wad the sillqu4estonmcW
stintly Aked of theig by Ignorant,-stplA sod'
nemrus. eople, the wonder ould oth at
they cAt be civil at all.
SUFFOCATED.-We are Infortned that iM tW
large crowd of negroes which assemble& o
the Freedmen's Bureau, on 1(onday last
(which, perhaps, wai not more than t6u
every day), a child in the arms of Its mathe
was squeezed and suffocated to death.
By laying a.piece of charcoal upona bura'
the pain subsides immediately. By leavin .
the charcoal.'on one hour,je wound is heW,
as has been demonstrated or sev era occasions.
The remedy is cheap and simple, and certain
ly deserves a trial.
Lalfst Iu 0niW!
C, H1. KWNOSMORE
AS retu-ned from AugstA and is prepared
to take any kind of PICTUBE.
Ambrotypes,
Photographs,
.Portraits#
From any kind of Picture# I
Jan17 3 tf
REMO VAIl
WRIGRI a61orC
AVING disposed of their entire Stoek of:Lao
dies Dress Goods; Hardware asd Gree
ries, and'
REMOWO TON.MUMidW,
will now give their entire a i A Of
Gents, Youths and Boys
l t q and F , q 4kII,
-nuineW g
Cloths
Casimerst
Caps,
D~esling exclusiveTyv ins one line, e liadiem -
liar advantages in buyiig, -wich etiabea 1
keepa a rger stock anid to elI ker
than others not siraihtarly s1iLua .
sully invite the attention of aIi a(
'Ln ;ewr Si,ock,
an ilendeavor to let no oine leiave oi'4te
witbou.t being sn4e&d - - -
We 2have stili on.Jind -a diedlof Ladie
Shoes and (grockeryware~ which we -rlet
to cJo.e ont. W' EIGHT & CPOCE~
Jainuary 17 33 -
~FLOURFLOUR~
40 ?.RRELS FN ~FAX L mt --7
streWEiB & LVEN 1L -
-~n *7~ t -.- - . -, .
AUCTON1!R.4N CO.S
SrLIIThNS Sht oif 'B NES8 S a t8a
experienieeja~ th tbove BRMNCJJES garaepn
tsfactiu *'
Jan. 17, 24-*, - -
NITRlOGEN1ZNT
PPHiNJATElA
B i.-icreasee qumi..o-Cun irU
h'dred.pounds er inorre ThiI Fertilizer eow
tainis alf the properties of barn-yatd ma.nure, and
improvesthlad
Send yfooC o.drs hnmediatelyjtn order to haeve
by'the-adaIiion of the M -
orne' y of HaLyden ~ hilden
-C4A RLESTO N, S. C.
Have opened a compet sLeninof -
Coekey, China adsiwaiaJare
Plated Goods of ever. rety, .
Cocks, Watches and ie~ryg 11obkei
and Table Cutlery, Buickef. Baiskt -
and Broomsf
WA TCHES and' - EWELRX vepaied.' - W
Gold and siIei' pcha,ed. 'Orders orapd .
filled and for*arda4 . -4ve W,l -
H A'VING located. -arFog 'Leve,
IProfssional Seltviees tl cissM
ewberry Distrit. Jatuar1'i1
Ieceiing &Forwardilngigteftff
W ILL establisir themselves at Columrbhi -8
C., on the completion of the 8o. 04.S. Er
to that point, where they will behappy to. ,erv.
their old friends and patrons. Thanktbl'fora jst
favors, they will endeavor, by prbispt
to the interest of their curtomets, tT z*das
i nuanYce.
LIBERA L ADVA'TCS trillemaeo
siguents to their friends lna reo;Ns
York and Liverpool. -I
Jan, 174:44t.
STATE JFSOUTH CAROLIIIA.
NERWBERET MDIXCR
B oTPeteron, Ordinary ofif
DisriEA. -er .*ige
W HEREA, Hny .-.ge
Wlied to mue for Letters of*
ion, on all and sing4larU the. ggeds a
tels, rights and credits of Geotee':
late of the distries aforesiL-lee4 4>-3
These are therefore-to cite- anCdo.n-,.k
and singular, the kisdred and. caed dr of ab
said deceased, to be. and appear bepr sfe,.ateus
nxt Ordinary's Court for the sai dI~~o~
holden at Newberry Court House Ghtteb ?~k
~.A~ Ia~.~mia -nnb~t~iniA if airy